Before Russia ramped up their shadow war against the World, they required all Foreign Office employees send ALL OF THEIR IMMEDIATE RELATIVES home to Russia. Just like in Game of Thrones, they are keeping hostages.

I wouldn’t say it’s “intrinsically bad”- I would say it’s lazy, and creates incestuous universes.

The Indiewire transcript also makes clear that she knows of sexual predators in the French film industry comparable to Weinstein, whom she continues to protect.

Tamir Rice was murdered, full stop. I respect where you are coming from with this.

Tamir Rice was murdered, full stop. I respect where you are coming from with this.

Isn’t that, by definition, punishing someone prior to confirming they deserve that punishment?

And the countdown to CDaN giving us the real story about Feldman in 5, 4, 3, 2...

1. Joe Stinchcomb is a black bartender in Mississippi- he is also an Artist, who’s chosen a non-traditional medium (cocktails) in order to create, essentially, a standing Art installation in this form. There is a sense in which this art cannot be considered outside of that context. His creation has created this…

What? NO!

DO YOU SEE?

The bill in question has no effect on race and sex reporting re: mortgages, according to this correction from the Associated Press.

Catharsis theory has been disproved. Expressing your sorrow or anger just makes you suffer more, increases the potentiation of the neurons which comprise that part of you which suffers.

All of these “weak physically” people are expressing genes which have been retained in ancestral populations for a reason. They may have been less common due to pressure from childhood disease- or they may have been less common due to the extreme polygamy of some of our ancestors, or because their fitness advantage…

They were allowing bugs they were aware of to remain, in order to feed convincing mis-information to the Cubans while their real discussions occurred elsewhere. If they remove bugs they are aware of, they just encourage the Cubans to place more, in places which they might not be aware of the surveillance.

I had completely forgotten that role- thank you!

Peele’s winning his Oscar for Best Screenplay reminds me of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck winning their Best Screenplay Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting. In both cases, the Academy recognized the writer(s) with an Academy award, but Best Picture went to films which were more elaborately staged and filmed, with larger…

On some level we all know that there was never a Good Old Days to go back to.

C3-PO gets a bad rap because of some unexamined tropes (which veer towards homophobia at some points.) He’s not a translator- he’s Cultural Competence. There are apps that can translate to and from languages, but can it proactively tell you that you aren’t dressed appropriately for peace treaty negotiations, how low…

What if Shyriiwook is an approximation? Romantization turned the philosopher Kung Fu Tzu into Confucius in the same circumstance involving missing sounds/tones.